April 8, 2012Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord

CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH6300 McKenna Drive, Mobile, Alabama 36608

Email: Church@CorpusChristiParish.com ! Website: www.CorpusChristiParish.com

TELEPHONE NUMBERS

Parish Office: 342-1852 • Fax 342-6313

School Office: 342-5474, ext. 1 • Fax 380-0325

Rel. Ed. Office: 342-5474, ext. 7 • Fax 380-0325

Preschool Office: 342-2424 • Fax 343-3119

Youth Ministry: 342-1852 • Fax 342-6313

PASTORAL STAFF

Very Rev. James F. Zoghby, V.F., Pastor

Rev. John S. Boudreaux, Associate Pastor

Deacon Arthur W. Robbins, Deacon

Sr. Donna Cooper, R.S.M., Visitation Chaplain

Mrs. Judi B. Ankiewicz, Pastoral Assistant

Mrs. Joan T. McMullen, School Principal

Mrs. Linda M. Hawkins, Preschool Director

Mrs. Kathleen Q. Jester, Parish Catechetical Leader

Mrs. Colleen DeVoe, Youth Ministry Co-Director

Mrs. Brenda Martens, Youth Ministry Co-Director

Mr. Matthew F. Purvis, Music Director

Mr. Jay H. Henley, Gym Manager

TO REGISTER AS A MEMBER OF THE PARISH

Please fill out a Census Form. Census Forms are

available in the church vestibule and parish office.

COMMUNITY CENTER RENTALS & SERVICES

For rental information and kitchen services, please call

the parish office at 342-1852 or 342-1420.

SUNDAY MASSES

Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Saturday

Morning: 7:00, 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.

WEEKDAY MASSES

6:30 a.m.: Monday through Friday

8:15 a.m.: Monday through Saturday

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Saturday: 5:00 p.m. and by request, particularly

after the 6:30 & 8:15 a.m. weekday Masses.

BAPTISM, MARRIAGE, ANOINTING OF SICK

Please call the parish office (342-1852) or information

and scheduling baptism, marriage, anointing of sick.

ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (R.C.I.A.)

Please see published schedule for specific dates and

times, or call the parish office (342-1852).

SUNDAY SCHOOL (C.C.D.) Grades K–12, Sundays

during school year, 10:05-10:55 a.m. in school bldgs.

SCHOOL, SACS-accredited for Grades K through 8.

For info & registration, please call the school office.

PRESCHOOL, State-licensed for 6-week to 4-yr. olds.

For info & registration, please call the preschool office

EAS TER S UNDAY: THE RES URRECTION OF THE LORD

Rejoice!With joy we welcome our brothers and sisters

joining the Catholic Christian Community, and Catholics receiving Confirmation.

CATE CH UME NS

Those not yet baptized being received into the Catholic Christian Community

with the 3 sacraments of Christian initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist

Jack Carney Joonseok Jeon Charles McLemore Jeffrey Greep Aeri Jeon Jacob McManus Jenna Greep Kelly Jeon Anthony Nguyen Jared Greep Grace Jeon Ann Selph

Jihye Song

CAND ID ATE S F OR FULL COMMUNION

Christians of other denominations being received into full communion with the

Catholic Christian Community with sacraments of Confirmation & 1st Eucharist

John Baggett M K Harlesss Gerry McManus Wayne Barber Haley Hastings Renee McManus Joshua Barton Michelle Hastings Scott Moore Jessica Boren Carmen May Carmen Parrino Cindy Cooper Cheree Wimmer

CATH OLIC CAND ID ATE S F OR CONF IR MATION

Catholics Receiving Confirmation

Robyn Dougherty Megan Hudson Jacqueline Moseley Donna Greep Sean Landry Hernando Palomino

CH ILD BAP TIS M

Child of Joonseok & Aeri Jeon

Julia Jeon

Easter Egg HuntMeet at school courtyard right after Sunday's 11 a.m. Mass.

Next Sunday, April 15 ! 3 Sunday 5:30 p.m. Massrd

Remaining date this school year for this extra Mass is: May 20

SUNDAY SCHOOL (CCD)

No Classes on Easter Sunday, April 24.

SCHOOL NEWSSpring Holidays: Monday-Friday, April 9-13.

Special Thanks to Deputy Chief Joseph KennedyCorpus Christi is especially grateful to parishioner, Deputy ChiefJoe Kennedy of the Mobile Police Department for his generosity inproviding security during the Thursday, Friday, Saturday servicesof Holy Week, personally patrolling Corpus Christi's parking lots.

Wednesday Night Dinner5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Banquet Hall

$9.00 for Adults ! $4.00 for Children (Age 12 & under)

April 11 ~ [No Wednesday Night Dinner] Spring Break..April 18 ~ Red Beans & Rice with Conecuh Sausage, Fried Okra,Mocque Choux Corn, Caesar Salad, Corn Bread, ChocolateCream Pie. Kids Menu : Chicken Tenders & Fries.

Must RSVP with your name & number in your party: 1. Return an RSVP

Card, or 2. Call 342-1852 or 3. Email church@CorpusChristiParish.com

Bible Study GroupsSundays, 8:45-10 a.m., School Conf. Rm. Ken Crowley, 423-6921.

Tuesdays, 1:30-3 p.m., Com. Ctr., Rm. 3. Judi Ankiewicz, 344-0321

Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 p.m..: Com. Ctr., Conf. Rm. Dave Burchette, 367-6660

Thursdays, 9:00-10:45 a.m.: Women’s Bible Study. Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm.

Penny Claiborne, 776-5850, or Joanne Donaghey, 554-6753.

Society of St. Vincent de PaulPoor Box, Food, Clothing donations put in the designated places inthe vestibule are distributed by our St. Vincent de Paul Society

To obtain assistance, call 432-5173 and leave name & phone no.

Meetings: 1 & 3 Wed., 7 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm. (2 Flr.)st rd nd

Men of St. JosephTuesdays, 7 to 8 a.m. in the Family Room

All men are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion.Info: Jim Donaghey, jbd@orthomobile.com or www.MenOfStJoseph.com.

Women of MaryWednesdays, 7-8 p.m., in the Family Room

.. All women are welcome to meet for prayer, reading the Gospel, and discussion.Info: Sr. Deborah Kennedy, R.S.M., 316-3960.

Widowed Persons’ Support GroupFor information call parishioner Glen Porter at 666-8977.

Knights of ColumbusMeeting: 2 Tues., Apr. 10, 7 p.m., Com. Ctr. Conf. Rm.. (2 Flr).ndnd

Contact: Grand Knight, Bob Wheat, 490-9350.

Help with VBS! — June 11-15To volunteer, please email kjester@CorpusChristiParish.com.

AA — Alanon — OA — COD AAA: Sun., 7 p.m., and Wed., 7 p.m., Cougar Den.

Alanon: Sun., 7 p.m., and Wed., 7 p.m., Arts & Sciences Bldg.OA: Sat., 9 a.m., Arts & Sciences Bldg.

CODA: Tues., 6:45 p.m., Arts & Sciences Bldg.

CORPUS CHRIS TI PARIS H, MOBILE, ALABAMA APRIL 8 , 2 0 1 2

Shakespeare-After-School presents “The Tempest”Thursday, May 3, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5, available at School Office.

McGill-Toolen’s Soccer Club’s fund raiserfor two of its sophomore students battling leukemia:

Andre Colletti and Dante PicciniTuesday, April 17 at Lipscomb Field, the women’s & men’s soccer games are at5:30 & 7p.m. against Daphne High School. The gate fees go to St. Jude’s Hospitaland USA Women’s and Children’s, where Andre and Dante are being treated. Autographed footballs by A. J. McCarron and Gene Chizik to be raffled for $1 perticket. Donations may be made out to St. Jude’s Hospital in honor of Andre Collettior USA Women’s & Children’s Hospital in honor of Dante Piccini.Info: Shani Robison or Susan Sheid, 367-3651 or 513-706-9213.

Boy Scouts — Troop 29Troop Meeting: 5 p.m., Sunday, April 15.Ryan Griffin’s Eagle Scout Court of Honor, Sunday, April 22, 4 p.m. Backpacking at Cheaha State Park, Friday-Sunday, April 27-29. Committee Meeting: Monday, April 30, 6:30 p.m.

Cub Scouts – Space Derby: Tues., Apr/ 17, 6 p.m., Com. Center.

Earth Day Cleanup Project: Sat., April 21, Time to be announced.Info or to join the Cub Scouts, contact Walter Bracewell 633-2027 or Mike Martin 633-5218 or visit ccspack29.scoutlander.com.

Rosary after 8:15 a.m. weekday Mass.

Around the Archdiocese: Mobile Deanery ACCW Card

Party/Luncheon, Tues, April 17, 10 am-2 pm, St. Dominic Parish Hall. Help CatholicSocial Services receive a part of the one million dollars from the FeinsteinFoundation. The Foundation will divide the one million dollars among social serviceagencies based on the amount of funds each agency receives through April 30. Makeyour cash donation to Catholic Social Services, 406 Government St., Mobile AL 36602.

FIRST COLLECTION TODAY for tithing offerings.NO SECOND COLLECTION TODAY.

EASTER FLOWERS COLLECTION FINAL: $1,650.00CHURCH IN AFRICA & EASTERN/CENTRAL EUROPE FINAL: $1,614.00APR 1 BUILDING FUND ONLINE & COLLECTION: $22,446.00ST

APR 1 TITHING ONLINE & COLLECTION: $32,105.90ST

Thank You and God Bless Youfor your tithes, contributions & bequests to Corpus Christi Church. To make a direct donation of stock, ask your stockbroker, or callSteve Setterstrom at Citigroup Global Mkts. at 470-1060.Receive a detail listing of your contributions by mail, email or fax:Call 342-1852 or email Church@CorpusChristiParish.com

Online GivingWith Online Giving you can either make a one-time contribution orset up a recurring automatic withdrawal from a checking or savingsor credit card account: Go to www.CorpusChristiParish.com; click“Church”; then click the green Online Giving icon, and follow the

instructions to contribute to the tithing or building fund or special collections.For assistance, call 1-800-348-2886, ext 4, or parish office, 342-1852.

EasterThe Name of Easter

In almost every language except English, the name for

this annual memorial of the resurrection is some form ofthe word “Passover” (for example, Pasch, from theHebrew Pesach, “Passover”). When Christianity arrivedin the north countries, its springtime celebration of theresurrection received a new name from the Teutonicpeople, a name used today by English-speaking people:Easter. At one time it was thought that this name camefrom an Anglo-Saxon spring goddess, Eostre. However,there is doubt that worship of such a goddess ever existed. A better explanation lies in people’s misunderstanding ofa Latin phrase for Easter Week, “in white vestments” (inalbis), thinking it was the plural of alba in the Latin idiomfor “dawn.” This was translated in Old High German aseostarun. Regardless of the exact origin of the term, thesymbolism remains: Christ is the sun that rises at dawn –in the east.

Easter Eggs The egg has become a popular

Easter symbol.Creation myths of many ancientpeoples center in a cosmogonic eggfrom which the universe is born. Theegg, therefore, is a natural symbol, notonly of creation, but also of re-creation

and resurrection. In ancient Egypt and Persia friendsexchanged decorated eggs at the spring equinox, thebeginning of their new year. These eggs were a symbol offertility for them because the coming forth of a livecreature from an egg was so surprising to people ofancient times. Christians of the Near East adopted thistradition, and the Easter egg became a religious symbol. It represented the tomb from which Jesus came forth tonew life. Because eggs were at one time forbidden by theChurch’s lenten discipline of fasting and abstinence, theywere a precious Easter food.

Eggs are usually given to children, either in Easterbaskets or hidden for the children to find. Easter egghunts, and even the egg-rolling on the White House lawn,are contemporary versions of egg games played on Easterfor centuries in European countries.

He is Risen!Resurrection Homily of St. John Chrysostom

Let all pious men and all lovers of God rejoice in the splendor of this feast!

Let the wise servants blissfully enter into the joy of their Lord. Let those who

have borne the burden of Lent now receive their pay, and those who came after thethird hour be grateful to join in the feast, and those who may have come after thesixth, let them not be afraid of being too late, for the Lord is gracious and Hereceives the last even as the first. He gives rest to him who comes on the eleventhhour as well as to him who has toiled since the first.

Yes, He has pity on the last and He serves the first. He rewards the one and

is generous to the other. He repays the deed and praises the effort.

Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the

last, receive alike your reward. You rich and you poor, dance together. You

sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day.

You who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. Let no

one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let

no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave. Let no one fear

death, for the death of our Savior has set us free. He has destroyed it by

enduring it. He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom. He has

angered it by allowing it to taste of His flesh. When Isaiah foresaw all this, he

cried out: “O Hades, you have been angered by encountering Him in the nether

world.” Hades is angered because it has been frustrated. It is angered because

it has been mocked. It is angered because it has been destroyed. It is angered

because it has been reduced to nothing. It seized a body, and, lo! It discovered

God. It seized earth, and behold! It encountered heaven. It seized the visible,

and was overcome by the invisible.

O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is

risen and you are abolished. Christ is risen and evil is cast down. Christ is risen

and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life is freed. Christ is risen and the

tomb is emptied of the dead. For Christ, being risen from the dead, has become

the Leader and Reviver of all who had fallen asleep.

To Him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen!

St. John Chrysostom (347-407)

Easter means you can put

truth in the grave,

but it will not stay

there. Clarence W. Hull

We are sons and

daughters of the

Resurrection, and

Alleluia is our song! St. Augustine

Rejoice! The message, the spirit and

the impact of Easter go onthrough the entire year. Everyuse of blessed water remindsus of our baptism into thedeath and resurrection of theLord. Every celebration of theEucharist is a commemoration

of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection. EverySunday throughout the year is a miniature Eastercelebration, reminding us: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

Alleluia:Praise God!

The term “alleluia” is aHebrew word meaning“praise God.” Surprisingly,

it does not appear very often in the Scriptures – only15 times. From the earliest days of Christianity,however, it became a popular expression oftriumph, of joy, and of hope. St. Augustine wrotethat the entire life of a Christian should be an“alleluia,” a living expression of praise to God forHis infinite goodness in lifting us up to be Hischildren, and to share in His victory eternally. Fr. O’Day, S.J.

THEY FOUND THAT THE TOMB

WAS EMPTYOn the first d ay of

the w eek, at the first

sign of d aw n, w hen

the w om en cam e to

the tom b, they saw

that the bod y of

Jesu s w as not there.

Su d d en ly, tw o m en

in brillian t clothes ap p eared at their

sid e, and said to them , “Why look

am ong the d ead for one w ho is

alive? H e is not here. H e has risen! (Luke 24:1-6)

Philip’s EasterEgg An eleven-year-old boy

named Philip was in a religion class with eight otherchildren. On Easter Sunday theteacher gave each child anempty plastic egg. The

children were told to go outside and find somethingto put into the egg that would remind them of themeaning of Easter. They came back exited and happy. As each eggopened there were exclamations of delight uponseeing a butterfly, a twig, a flower, a blade of grass. Then the last egg was opened. It was Phillip’sand it was empty! Some of the children laughed at Phillip.“But teacher,” he said, “the tomb was empty.” Sadly, Philip died a few months later. The newspaper article said that at the funeral eightchildren put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that said, “The tomb wasempty.”

The Easter VigilIn the Early Church...

The Easter Vigil celebration of the Lord’s resurrection

goes back to the first generation of Christianity. For thefirst three centuries this was the only feast observedthroughout the Church. There was no separate EasterSunday celebration. Instead, Christians began during thenight hours and into dawn to celebrate their experience of Christ victorious over death and sin and their victory withhis. It was during those dark hours, turning into the firstday of the week (Sunday), that this mystery had occurred,as recorded in the Gospels (MT 28:11; MK 16:1; LK 24:1; JN 20:1).

It was lost...

As time went on this magnificent liturgical treasure of the church – the Easter Vigil – became all but totally

lost. The absolute low point came during the past few hundred years, including the first half the 20 century.th

Prompted partly by the development of church laws which said that Masses could not be offered after noon,and requiring absolute fast from midnight in order to receive the Eucharist, the entire glorious ritual of thecelebration of the Easter Vigil was compressed into an hour or two early Holy Saturday morning, the priestreciting all the scripture readings and blessings by himself in Latin, and then a simple Mass, much like any otherweekday Mass of the year. In the Missal of Pius V (1570), the Vigil became fixed by church law as an early HolySaturday morning liturgy. With no exaggeration, it was a sad caricature of what once was, and is now once again, the high point of our

Christian liturgy, the supreme act of worship of the year. In thatsituation, with the Easter Vigil gone, the Sunday morning Masseswere, of course the only Easter Masses.

...but was found

Starting some years before Vatican Council II, the church realized

the time had come to restore all of the Holy Week liturgies, with theEaster Vigil as the top priority. The renewal began in 1951 by way ofexperiment and was finalized in 1955. In its renewed form, the EasterVigil is almost the same as that in early centuries, except that theritual doesn’t last all night! Each year, the Easter Vigil is becomingfor more and more parishioners what it had been in its origin: thenight of all nights and the primary celebration of resurrection: Easter.

Easter morning...

The theme of Easter morning Masses echoes that of the Easter

vigil: joyful resurrection songs, renewal of baptismal vows, asprinkling of the assembly with the new Easter water, and the joyfuldecorations. Easter morning Masses remember and celebrate the veryfoundation of Christianity: Jesus is raised from the dead and is Lord.

Those who believe and are baptized share in this celebration of the resurrection to new life. This theme continuesfor the next fifty days of the Easter season.

“Catholic Customs and Traditions,” Greg Dues. “The New Question Box, “ Rev. John J. Dietzen, National Catholic News Service.